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Hey you dreamers, strikers and new left redeemers out there,
For thirty-one magical days beginning this Tuesday,
May 1, we take the plunge and Strike! We
block the Golden Gate Bridge;
occupy a Manhattan-bound tunnel; seize the ports. In
115 cities,
we march into banks, erect tents and refuse to leave. We disrupt
financial institutions forcing thousands to preemptively close. Five
thousand of us pray, dance, sleep on Wall Street and in front of the Fed
and if the Bloombergs of the world bring out paramilitary police to
intimidate us, we use our social media fire to call out 50,000 more
occupiers and intimidate them right back.
In the week
before the G8 and NATO summits, we light the spark globally. We occupy hundreds of squares in cities on every continent – from
Paris to
Berlin,
Toronto to
Athens,
São Paulo to
Bucharest and
beyond
– we up the ante with direct actions that paralyze capitalism. For a
few days, maybe for a full month, we act as if we already live in a
world run by people, not corporations.
Our movement goes geopolitical later in May. We
swarm Chicago and confront
NATO.
We tell the military elites there to stop their saber rattling against
Iran, halt the global arms race and get behind what the majority of the
people on Earth want: a nuclear-free world starting with a nuclear-free
Middle East that includes both Iran and Israel.
And then when the G8 leaders meet in Camp David, we create a global
spectacle the likes of which the world has never seen before … millions
of us … individually, in flash groups and en masse, we burst out
laughing at the lunacy of the eight most powerful political leaders on
the planet thinking they can dictate the people’s business from behind
closed doors and barbed wire fences. For one day, we take over the
global mindspace with a whirlwind of
#LAUGHRIOT
jokes. (Like: Why did the G8 chickens cross to Camp David? / Cuz
they’re on the other side. haha!) We laugh our heads off on every news
broadcast in the world.
May 1968 was the first wildcat general strike in history … it lasted
two weeks and was a grand gesture of refusal still remembered, but then
it fizzled … maybe this May we won’t?
for the wild,
Culture Jammers HQ
OccupyWallStreet.org / Tactical Briefing
#26,
#27,
#28 and
#29 / Find out what your local Occupy has planned for
May 1,
May 12, and the
#LAUGHRIOT then join the movement in
Chicago
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